Janisportal

Today I lost a load of keys

Now I'm circling the blocks I leave each morning

A teacher in his forties, timid, boring

In the shits with kids who can't tell

Similes from allegories, but that's another story

I'm outside now and it's pouring

An unfortunate explorer creeping door to door

My feet's exhausted, keep em walking

Can't believe these things that I've forgotten

Throughout my life never really seized the moment

I blame the hobbits, Harry Potter, weed and ramen

Even dreaming as my daughter's talking

My partner thinks I'm lying often, keeping secrets

Shit like seeing colleagues on the weekend

The truth is that it's not that deep

I just lose some stuff sometimes and sometimes it's my keys

Fuck!

Today sucks, might go back to school to try my luck

Nah, nope, forget it, keep my head low on the pavement

Do my holy best to avoid an awkward conversation

With the janitor who stays late or my boo who hates games

Cause let me tell you

If my wife finds out I've lost my keys

It might just be the end dude, whoa

This a fight to save a marriage

One final chance to jump before we go down with my wreckage

And I reckon that the message life is giving me is

Wait, shit, yo

My daughter's waving from the window

It's 12AM I didn't tuck her with her pillows

It's sinful, but I'll walk until i see a ripple

Sweepin' and moppin' I see deeper than bottom

Teachers grinnin' at me with the teeth stained and rotten

You locked out, I'm locked in

I just dropped in to see what condition the human condition was in

I'm just waitin' for that portal to open up again

Again

Sweepin' and moppin' i seen deeper than bottom

I think that kid ran through your pockets

Shiny objects near and dear are closer than they appear

I waltzed undetected by the exit to claim the pair of

Keys my english teacher keeps in his left jacket pocket

On the hook by the door of this nest that I rot in

Stormy Friday, told Ma I'm stayin' at Clyde's place

Bought some hours showered in the rain 'til the night came

Then split to the back, upend the vent off the fire escape

Entered and felt my breath swept into epochal dire straits

Why take cover laden in my apprehensions haven

Maze of lockers wanderin' ponderin' proxies of this matrix

Bakers dozen age, anguish to directors chair

Grapplin' the thousand pounds of pressure that the feathers wear

Caged pigeon, in a sleeping panopticon

Meek inherit the lair, mere sheep to the proctors throne

Go to home room askin' should I leave the keys and flea the scene

Or breach the peace but heard a sneaker squeak

The janitor

Ankles pivot, paint thinnin' de facto

Moral compass stutter butterflies swimmin' the backstroke

Claspin the keys believin imma fling em and dash home

'Til a whimperin' flashbulb memory from this classroom bubbles up

Can't admit what it is though check my pants is zipped

Scramble the grid for a yawnin' locker wanted to test this magic trick

Pinpoint target, tip toe towards it, janitor scannin' he catches a glimpse

But i enter the crypt and the locker swallow

Hide and go seek the new cosmos' Waldo

Sweepin' and moppin' I see deeper than bottom

Teachers grinnin' at me with the teeth stained and rotten

You locked out, I'm locked in

I just dropped in to see what condition the human condition was in

I'm just waitin' for that portal to open up again

Again

Sweepin' and moppin' i seen deeper than bottom

I think that kid ran through your pockets